20-something guy #1: And somehow they found out we were living together!
20-something guy #2: OOOOOhhh.

Corporate office, Eagan
Overheard by ashley.

Middle aged construction worker: It’s fuckin’ hot. It’s fuckin’ hot everywhere. Hot wind, hot sun… it’s even hot in the shade! FUCK!

Xcel Energy power plant construction site
Overheard by The guy with the clipboard.

Tour guide to impressionable freshmen: And this is Morrill Hall.  You probably won’t ever go in there unless you need to use the bathroom.

Church St., U of M Westbank

Woman on cell phone: Well, I’ve always had a little discharge its normal, but now I got even more coming out!

Hennepin County Public Health Clinic
Overheard by getyoselfchecked.

Hickman talking to his girlfriend at the ValleyFair entrance: I should have kept my 9 mil in the car.

ValleyFair entrance
Overheard by ya think creeper?

Hipster 20 something girl talking to two other hipster 20 somethings: Yeah, I’ve had four abortions.
Other hipsters: Wow.
Hipster 20 something girl: Yeah, I get pregnant a lot. It just runs in the family!

Uptown, Minneapolis
Overheard by pro….choice?

5 year old boy: What do people eat in Egypt?
5 year old girl: Nothing! They don’t eat anything in Egypt!

Southwest Super Summer Program
Overheard by clarodactyl.

Young child to mother while entering Gooseberry Falls National Park: Ooh! I smell the gooseberries!
Mother: No, honey.  You’re just smelling nature.

Gooseberry Falls National Park, Two Harbors
Overheard by I thought they were *part* of nature…

50ish Woman looking at a MAC computers: So, I want to be able to read my email and listen to music at the same time.
Sales Guy: Oh yeah, it has all that compatibility.

Best Buy Richfield
Overheard by It even has a color screen…

Middle aged Co-worker#1 after touring the 35w bridge construction site, enthusiastically: Wasn’t that cool to see the bridge up close and get the private tour?
Middle aged Co-Worker#2, sniffs: Well, I suppose so for someone who hasn’t seen it before. I’ve seen it lots of times.

Capitol city cubicle farm
Overheard by so have I, but I guess nobody’s cooler than thou.

White mid-20’s male to 3 other friends: But you didn’t hear the rest of the story; that was the THIRD time I had been to Taco Bell that day.

Azia restaurant
Overheard by making a run for the boarder.

Woman on phone: No Dad, the democratic congress is probably NOT affecting the cancer rate. No, a democratic President will probably not make cancer rates worse.

Office in downtown Minneapolis
Overheard by me!

4 year old girl screaming and crying at the top of her lungs repeatedly for minutes: BUT I WANT THE TOY! I WANT IT MOMMY! WHY CAN’T I HAVE IT?! IT’S NOT FAIR!!!
Mom: Well, it’s time for you to learn that life isn’t fair.

Target Plymouth
Overheard by: Hopin’ that little girl grows up to be her mom’s parole officer.

Young woman to her husband as they walk out of a store at a strip mall: Good God, it smells like poon out here!!
Husband: Shhh!  It’s probably the Asian restaurant.  They serve fish.
Woman: OK, well it’s smells like Asian poon then!

Parking lot by Asian restaurant in SLP
Overheard by Does it smell different?

Blonde girl to boyfriend: I think I’d make a good drug addict.

Dinkytown McDonald’s
Overheard by uhh…

Hard of hearing old man: Can I get a medium dark coffee?
Employee: Sure.  Would you like room for cream?
Old man: Huh?
Employee: Room for cream?
Old man: What?
Employee: Would you like me to leave room for some cream?
Old man: Medium.  Dark roast.
Employee: Okay.  Do you want room for cream in there, or no?
Old man: No, but could you leave some space so I can put in some cream?

Plymouth Caribou

Oncoming fellow dog walker to his companion: Oh, they had Nazis too!

Minnehaha Falls
Overheard by Walkin this way.

Soccer mom #1: Do you know what I heard the other day? Sun exposure is the leading cause of skin cancer.
Soccer mom #2: No way.

Lifetime Fitness

Child, selling refreshments: You want one?
50-year-old man: Nah, I’m already loaded.

Stillwater Lumberjack Days
Overheard by The young man wearing a white tie.

Little girl to popsicle: And then I’m going to lick you and suck on you until you melt all over me.
Her concerned mother: KELLY! I TOLD YOU NOT TO TALK TO POPSICLES!

French Regional Park